Each of the four rowing teams is themed on a different Edgar Allan Poe story. The teams are The Black Cat (black), The Cask of Amontillado (red), The Pit and the Pendulum (violet), and The Gold Bug (yellow).
The title is a pun based on the original source of Wednesday's name ("Wednesday's child is full of woe"), and the opening line of the 1968 song "One" written by Harry Nilsson for his album Aerial Ballet and later a Top 10 hit for Three Dog Night in 1969, "One is the Loneliest Number".
Wednesday reveals that Nevermore Academy's most famous alum was Edgar Allan Poe.
The side character Yoko looks like a vampire version of Yoko Ono.
The date of the first Poe Cup was 1897. This is a significant date in the history of Gothic horror as it was the year of publication of Bram Stoker's novel 'Dracula'.